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...Lamont's victory over Joe Lieberman in last week's Democratic Senate primary in Connecticut precipitated the expected torrent of rubbish from left-wing blognuts and conservative wingnuts. There was a nauseating triumphalism on both sides, the unblinking assertion that this one poorly attended summer primary provided a lesson of earth-shattering significance to the future of American politics. Maybe it did, but I hope...
...woman. It has enriched my writing." Morris' writing sprawls from book-length essays on the meaning of place (Venice, Wales, O Canada!, Manhattan '45) to serious works of history (notably the Pax Britannica trilogy, an ambitious three-part work on the fall of the British Empire) to a nonstop torrent of newspaper and magazine articles. Age has not slowed her step. In July she is covering the first direct Eurostar service of the summer from London to Avignon for the Financial Times. Then off on a summer cruise-ship lecture tour. In October she will...
...SUVs, according to Art Spinella, president of CNW Marketing Research. Even before this year, higher gas prices had eroded that market. Only about 700,000 U.S. households are now in the market for full-size models. That's why automakers are switching to crossover vehicles like GM's Pontiac Torrent and Ford's Ecosport...
...Democratic and liberal groups had a field day with past Snow comments that were critical of Bush, usually for not being sufficiently ideologically pure. A Center for American Progress headline captured the torrent of e-mail: "Tony Snow On President Bush: 'An Embarrassment,' "Impotent,' 'Doesn't Seem To Mean What He Says.'" The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee sent out its quotes with the subject line, "WELCOME TONY SNOW!" and the office of Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada sent out a similar list with the headline: "Tony Snow, We Have Some Questions...
...Hubert Humphrey, in 1968, was the last Democrat to win his party's nomination without winning the most votes in the primaries. Most politicians tend to be cautious, straitlaced people. Confronted by the raging television torrent, by the strange new theatrics of public performance, which makes every last word or handshake a potentially career-threatening experience, they sought creative help to navigate the waters. And so, the pollster-consultant industrial complex was born. By 1976, the process had been turned upside down. A politician most Americans had never heard of-Governor Jimmy Carter of Georgia-won the Democratic nomination...